A collection of 220 posts
Iona Italia talks to William Costello, an evolutionary psychologist whose work focuses on incels, about what the Netflix series 'Adolescence' gets right and wrong about this group.
By helping neighbours find their way back to restaurants after Hurricane Katrina—and encouraging tourists to find their way back to the Big Easy—Tom Fitzmorris fed the soul of this most soulful city.
The US health secretary is spreading disinformation about vaccines while the administration he serves guts medical-research agencies and programs.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.
Vaccination against UTIs is a novel idea that holds enormous promise, but clinical trials must be well-designed and carefully analysed.
There are no quick and easy solutions to America’s illegal fentanyl problem.
A 2020 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine.
Water fluoridation is a scientifically validated public health measure. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to eliminate it is unjustified scaremongering.
Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.
Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics.
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
The journey of two novels from mind to page to silver screen.
The caring industry’s wellness and positivity products cannot provide self-esteem to those who do not already have it.
The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.